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Sulphur and Nitre will hardly account for. Does it 
depend upon the great Quantity of the Matter dif- 
charged, or the Violence with which it is impell’d ) 
1 he Ground is no way tore up, and the Grafs is only 
a little Waited ; which would make one think its.Force 
well nigh fpent : Whereas, when the Burit is near 
us, the Effieft is like that of a Petard, as appears 
from the following In fiance. ^ 
On Saturday July 5, at Mixbury , three Miles Eaft 
ot this Place, about two in the Afternoon, William 
nall y aged above Sixtr, was found dead in a hard 
gravelly Field, together with five Sheep, which lay 
round him about 30 Yards Difhnce : Of the five, that 
only, which lay nearefl him, had a vifible Wound 
t irough tae Head. The Shepherd lay partly upon 
is Side } the upper Part of his Head was terribly 
tractu r d and his right Knee was out of joint : He 
had a Wound in the Sole of his Foot, towards the 
1’ llS , n #, ht F ar . WaS cut ofF ’ and beaten ^to his 
Skull, and blood flow’d out of that Part upon the 
Ground. He is fuppofed to have been driving thofe 
Sheep. All his Cloaths and Shirt were torn into 
lmall Piews, and liung 3bout him; but from the 
Girdle downwards were carried away intirely and 
fcattered up and down the Field: Particularly’ the 
„ es of a new ftrong Pair of Shoes were rent off. His 
Hat was driven to Pieces : I have a Hand breadth of 
it full of irregular Slits, and, in fome few Places cu 1 - 
as with a very fliarp Pen-knife, and a little finged in - 
the upper Part. His Beard, and the Hair Sf his 
Head were, for. the mod Part, clofe burnt off. The 
Iron Buckle of his Beit was thrown 40 Yards o’ff and 
a Kmfe in the right Side Pocket of his Breeches was 
broken in Piece?, not melted, and the Haft folk. Near 
cacn foot appear two round Holes about a -Yard 
’ deep, 
